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'clear views' blog

Federal Courts Uphold Local Sign and Billboard Ordinances

  

In January, a federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit that claimed the City of Madison’s 

sign and billboard ordinances are unconstitutional. It's the second of two recent decisions 

that represent big victories for local rights and common sense!

  

Scenic Utah applauds these judicial decisions. Allowing municipalities to use 

consistently applied, community-focused ordinances to control 

digital signage  is huge victory, in Utah and across America.  

Billboard Court Victories (pdf)

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news, features, letters

"Degrading who we are, one billboard at a time" (January 2023)

Guest opinion by Susan Dennen / The Sun Chronical (Attleboro, MA)

https://www.thesunchronicle.com/opinion/columns/guest-column-degrading-who-we-are-one-billboard-at-a-time/article_8e01e580-09cd-518b-83a9-1301b7e9dae3.html


"Should Billboard Advertising Be Banned?"  (BBC September 8, 2022)

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62806697


Why are there so many billboards? (April 2022)

ABC 4 Digital Exclusive on Scenic Utah's work.

https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/why-are-there-so-many-billboards-in-utah/


St. George News on why our Photo Contest helps promote scenic preservation

https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2022/08/10/tsb-nonprofit-scenic-utah-opens-1st-annual-photo-contest-to-fight-utah-visual-pollution/#.YxjXP3bMLOg


City Weekly Photo Contest Blurb:  "Airspace Ad Space"

https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/mansplaining-mayhem/Content?oid=18770291


City Weekly 'Urban Living' article about Scenic Utah
https://www.cityweekly.net/UrbanLiving/archives/2022/08/24/scenic-utah


"The Growing Global Movement to End Outdoor Advertising" (EqualTimes, January 2020)

https://www.equaltimes.org/the-growing-global-movement-to-end#.YxoJxXbMJPY


Great op-ed in The Deseret News: "Is it Time to Ban Billboards?" 

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2020/10/13/21513237/guest-opinion-utah-outdoor-advertising-billboards-ban-natural-beauty-distracted-driving


        (...Reagan Outdoor Advertising's reply) https://websites.godaddy.com/en-US/editor/e6e3f4e7-f682-48d5-a88c-32da94803112/84614643-05aa-457c-9496-ba83ebc4c434/edit/450f166e-d0e5-433d-8040-d42c77c2d78a/mutator/card/0


Utah governor signs billboard-friendly legislation

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/03/14/utah-lawmakers-embraced-billboard-friendly-legislation-with-the-yes-votes-more-likely-to-come-from-those-who-took-industry-donations/

 Editorial: Mayor Biskupski is conspicuously silent on Billboard bill https://www.buildingsaltlake.com/editorial-mayor-biskupski-conspicuously-silent-billboard-bill/


Cities say big-donor billboard firms push sneaky bill to allow bigger, lighted displays without local OK https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/02/19/cities-say-big-donor-billboard-firms-push-sneaky-bill-to-allow-bigger-lighted-displays-without-local-ok/ 


High Country News: Billboard corporations use money and influence to override your vote

https://www.hcn.org/issues/44.3/44.1/billboard-corporations-use-money-and-influence-to-override-your-vote?b_start:int=2


Southern Utah town has starring role in dark-sky movement

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5133034&itype=CMSID


Orem restricts electronic billboards

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2058318&itype=CMSID


Ralph Becker Op-Ed: Billboard legislation represents the worst of Utah politics

https://www.deseret.com/2018/2/24/20640609/ralph-becker-billboard-legislation-represents-the-worst-of-utah-politics


Letter: Utah billboards are a form of visual junk

http://www.standard.net/Letters/2018/03/30/Utah-billboards-letter-Francis


Letter: Utah views obscured by politics and billboards

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3979237&itype=CMSID


Meet Ralph Becker: a public advocate for America the Beautiful

http://www.scenic.org/blog/263-meet-ralph-becker-a-public-advocate-for-america-the-beautiful


Lawmakers to consider 'Grand Boulevard' entrances to Salt Lake City from I-15

https://www.ksl.com/?sid=39824931


How outdoor advertising can deepen inequality 

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200817-the-inequality-of-outdoor-advertising-exposure


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